Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

In retrospect, the surgeons in the Civil War did an outstanding job. As a result of the war, America gained hundreds of competent surgeons who would lay the foundations of modern surgical specialties.

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

The Medal of Honor, the nation's highest recognition of valor, was created the following year during the Civil War. The surgeon volunteered to lead 14 men and a mule train on a 100-mile trek ...

To so many soldiers who trained and served at the Army post, the name meant something well beyond its original namesake.

says the author of the book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. (Toronto Public Library - image credit) ...